- πύελος
- πύελοςGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `water-trough' (with soaked corn?, τ 553; where grain is washed), `bathtub' (Hp., com., pap.), `coffin' (hell.; cf. Schulze Q. 515 a. Kl. Schr. 380 n.1).Other forms: hell. u. late πύαλος.Derivatives: πυέλ-ιον n. `coffin' (Crete, Diogenian.), -ίς (-αλίς), -ίδος f. `id.'; also `setting of a jewel, eye-socket etc.' (Att., hell.); -ώδης `trough-like, hollow' (Arist.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin](X)Etymology: Dissimilated from *πλυ-ελος? Nomen instr. or loci to πλύνω (πλυ-τός, πλύ-σις a.o.). -- Interpretation by Masing, to be rejected; s. Kretschmer Glotta 6, 308. Cf. Renehan, Class. Rev. N.S. 18 (1968) 133. -- The etymol. from πλύω is almost certainly wrong; it is almost certainly a Pre-Greek word (though the variation -ελος\/-αλος (late) is not very significant.Page in Frisk: 2,620
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.